Valeria
Luiselli

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Degrees

Bio

Valeria Luiselli published a book of personal essays titled Papeles falsos (Sidewalks) in 2010, and her work has been published in magazines and newspapers such as Letras Libres and The New York Times. Her first novel, Los ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd) was originally published by Sexto Piso in April 2011 and in the UK by Granta in May 2012. In 2014 she was named one of the “5 Under 35” by the National Book Foundation (U.S.). Her most recent novel, La historia de mis dientes (The Story of My Teeth) was one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 and won the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Asymptote, McSweeney, and Granta. She recently completed a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University. Luiselli’s most recent book is Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions(2017), which is structured around 40 questions she asked of undocumented Latin American children facing deportation.